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Kotkin
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Downtown Providence, another city redeveloping its center towards uniformity
Joel Kotkin of Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, author of a forthcoming book on the geography of the information age, sees the favorite cities of the Internet economy, such as San Francisco and Seattle, as boutiques for the young, single and rich. Seattle, for example, has the lowest density of children of any city in America. Just 10.8% of its residents are aged between five and 17. The cultural and ethnic mix that used to characterise inner cities is increasingly found in suburbs. Economist 2000, 33